This Boy's "Make-A-Wish" Request Was So Simple and So Sweet

Soon after Kellan Tilton's birth, doctors discovered a cancerous tumor on his spine and in his abdomen. So they started chemotherapy on the 2-day-old, which made him cancer-free, but the tumor left him paralyzed from the waist down.

Fast forward three years and now Kellan is happy, bubbly little boy despite his circumstances. At only 18 months, he was driving a wheelchair "better than anybody can drive a car now," his dad said. But there are still things the 3-year-old wishes he could do.

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So when Kellan was approached by Make-A-Wish foundation this spring, he didn't want a vacation to Disney World or a celebrity encounter. He just asked for the ability to spend time with his dad in his own backyard. "He could have taken a trip anywhere," Make-A-Wish Marketing Director Sonya Purington told CBS News."For him, what was most important was to be able to go outside and — as he said — 'wheel myself from my house down to the barn.'"

Currently, he can't join his father, Karl Tilton, when he works in the barn on their property, or play with his seven siblings when they roam the grass. To fix that, the nonprofit is paving a walkway through their Detroit, Maine, yard. "I have to carry him," Tilton told the network. "Now he has freedom — he has this gorgeous path from the house."

Ten workers from local companies have volunteered to build the 200-foot walkway — and they plan to reveal the finished project this Sunday. "He's been buzzing up and down that path all week long," Tilton said of his son. "Every morning and every night, it's the first thing he wants to do when he wakes up and last thing he wants to do before he goes to bed."